Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's oldest and best known institutions of learning--Harvard College--was founded in October 1636 by John Harvard. Through the years Harvard has developed into one of the most famous institutions of its kind in the world. Keeping in step with the upward trend in education was responsible for the long life and success of Harvard, and it is with pride that we point to our ever-growing list of satisfied customers as proof that this market, through the past half-century of its existence, has adhered to a policy of QUALITY, SERVICE, AND SANITATION. Join that list today...
...desk at Harvard Observatory (TIME, July 29). All this the introducer recalled just as he was beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart, are jumping on a creature that perfected a social system some 30,000,000 years...
...James Laughlin IV is the member of the Harvard Advocate board who was largely responsible for the ban placed on an issue of that magazine last autumn by Cambridge police. Great-Granddaughter Alice Denniston Laughlin is a stained-glass artist. And Board Chairman George McCully Laughlin Jr. was in step with the family tradition when he retired last week at 63. Then, for the first time in its history, Jones & Laughlin was left without either a Jones or a Laughlin in the two top executive offices...
...stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love...
...Sociology Department can do only so much unaided. Much it has done and much it can still do internally. But, considered from many points of view, the University is definitely under the obligation to discontinue treating it like a step-child and instead strenuously apply itself to forwarding its progress. Sociology may be a child at present, and not a fully-developed one at that, but every indication points to its being a giant of the future...